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Tracing History: Vintage Hand Mixer and Egg Beaters

  Hand-operated rotating egg beaters were invented before 1860, but it was unclear what the best design for the job would be. Inventors devised a number of labor-saving egg whisking techniques. The first spinning vintage hand mixer and egg beaters were most likely an American innovation copyrighted in 1856 and patented in England by Griffiths' Whisk in 1857. A completely new egg-beater was invented in 1849. Rotating beaters with a handle were always the best, although they came in a variety of shapes and sizes. Some of the first were attached to a pot and couldn't be used with the cook's preferred mixing bowl. Some were created by the same people that came up with the idea for miniature hand-cranked butter churns. Mechanical egg beaters were commonly the shape we know now by the 1880s. After being popularized by the Dover Stamping Company in the United States, they were dubbed Dover egg beaters. Starting with the Monroe vintage hand mixer and egg beaters , which were p...